Today another cancelled Windows tablet popped up, this time the Nokia Mercury, which has so far only been seen in renders (above).

The Nokia Mercury, which looks like a phone but is actually a tablet, is one of 4 devices cancelled when Microsoft took over Nokia’s handset division in 2014, which included tablets, phones and smart watches, and had code names such as Illusionist, Mercury, Pine and Vega/Atlas.

The device had a front-facing camera, prominent rear-facing camera and what looked like a SIM slot, so may have been LTE enabled.

The current leak confirms the device was an Atom x86 tablet with 1-2 GB of RAM, running Windows 8, making it a better device than the Windows RT Surface Mini.

While not exactly a looker itself, the handset does have that classic Lumia design language which was so successful in 2014.

Would our readers have picked one up a few years ago? Let us know below.

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